[Gllug] removing lilo from mbr

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On Wednesday 18 Aug 2004 16:27, john gennard wrote:
> A friend has a laptop with a single ide hard-drive on which he installed 
> W2000 and Mandrake
> and used dual booting by putting lilo on the mbr.
> 
> He later temporarily deleted Mandrake and gave over the whole disk to W2000
> (I think to allow adequate room for a lot of video files).
> 
> Now W2000 refuses to boot - we've tried all we can think of and got nowhere.
> 
> fdisk \mbr                                                            
>                     fails to work
> lilo -U                                                                  
>                     is no help
> booting from the W2000 CD, going to the recovery console
>     and using the fixboot and fixmbr commands                           
> don't help
> 
> This is beyond me, and I assume lilo is looking for Mandrake which was
> the default and no longer exists. Can anyone suggest how to get W2000 to
> boot. Grateful for any assistance.

Was the Mandrake running with kernel 2.6? There's a known issue whereby it 
"corrects" the mbr which has been wrongly written by Windows.



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